Re: Modems and Voice
Re: Modems and Voice
- Subject: Re: Modems and Voice
- From: Glenn Andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:42:03 -0500
At 8:14 PM -0700 7/21/03, Creed Erickson wrote:
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Tyson Tate wrote:
Are there any good resources or ideas on how I might go about
controlling the modem in such a way that I can:
a) Have it pick up the phone after so many rings
b) Use MacOS's speech synthesizer to "talk" to the caller
c) Let the caller make choices by pressing numbers
1) Such is a non-trivial telephony solution. Apple has no telephony
technology that I am aware of.
They use to (Telephony Manager), being designed for that goofy little
dsp-based modem-thingy, but I believe that stopped working with OS 8,
and there is nothing in OS X
2) What you describe is beyond the hardware capacity of Apple-supplied modems.
Sorry.
Not quite true - I'm currently using a clamshell iBook as an
answering machine which does most of what the original poster wanted
(using "HotFax Message Center"), though it just plays sound files
instead of text-to-speech.
However, the built in Apple modems do have a number of other
restriction - no caller ID, and apparently with other modems, the
aforementioned software can be used like a speaker phone (but
something on the apple built in modems precludes that - not sure
what).
I did some investigation at some point, and it all comes down to
sending special AT commands to send/recieve digitized sounds (not
sure what format or how the touch-tones are recognized).
I once found a perl-based "virtual answering machine" for Linux on
sourceforge - perhaps that could be used to provide a start...
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
Author of Macintosh games: Theldrow 2.3, Blobbo 1.0.2, Cythera 1.0.2
Be good, and you will be lonesome
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